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Friday, May 04, 2012
‘Pakistan, US committed to resolving bilateral issues’WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Thursday said the United States and Pakistan were committed to working through bilateral problems as doing so was in both countries’ national interests. The State Department said the two countries had a shared struggle against the menace of terrorism, which had claimed lives of thousands of Pakistanis. “We’ve talked before about the fact that terrorism is an existential threat for Pakistan. Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives to terrorism. So this is a shared struggle. We recognise that. We’re committed to working through the problems that we’ve had in the past, because it’s in our national interests to do so,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner noted. The comments came in the wake of last week’s talks on resuming wide-ranging cooperation, including counter-terrorism efforts, between the two countries. app
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